Use faker outside factories or seeders

If you want to generate some fake data, you can use Faker even outside factories or seeds, in any class.

Keep in mind: to use it in production, you need to move faker from "require-dev" to "require" in composer.json

 1use Faker;
 2 
 3class WhateverController extends Controller
 4{
 5    public function whatever_method()
 6    {
 7        $faker = Faker\Factory::create();
 8        $address = $faker->streetAddress;
 9    }
10}